Paul Brian McCoy is the Editor-in-Chief of Psycho Drive-In. His first novel, The Unraveling: Damaged Inc. Book One is available at Amazon US & UK, along with his collection of short stories, Coffee, Sex, & Creation (US & UK). He recently contributed the 1989 chapter to The American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1980s (US & UK). He also kicked off Comics Bulletin Books with Mondo Marvel Volumes One (US & UK) and Two (US & UK) and PDI Press with Marvel at the Movies: 1977-1998 (US & UK), Marvel at the Movies: Marvel Studios (US & UK), and Spoiler Warning: Hannibal Season 1 - An Unauthorized Critical Guide (US & UK). Paul is also unnaturally preoccupied with zombie films and sci-fi television. He can be found babbling on Twitter at @PBMcCoy.
If you've managed to hold out this long on dropping some coin on what has become the biggest superhero film franchise in history, then you should probably go ahead and take the plunge.
There's more than enough emotional bonding, sci-fi action, romance, bromance, and insane action sequences in this film to satisfy anyone looking for a good time.
And I didn't even mention the symbolism of Carol giving Rick her old watch; a woman's watch that was a gift she could never give up despite being from her abusive husband.
Dr. Samuel Loomis has no real rival in horror film history and the performances by Donald Pleasence were always nuanced, playful, tragic, and real, elevating whatever miserable excuse for a script he was handed into something magical.
The use of the constant rain and the flooding of the area as thematic elements never gets heavy-handed and enhances the beauty of the landscape rising up around these characters.
This time around, most of the creative teams just focused on figuring out how to get a first person perspective and then forgot to give us an interesting story.